"This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of …

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of …

fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …